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Megan Branning

Megan Branning is a children’s librarian living in Pittsburgh with her husband. Her writing has been published by Asimov’s, Space & Time, and others, and is forthcoming on The Drabblecast. You can follow her on Facebook and find her writing and comics at literarymice.com.


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    6 Apr 2026
    Poetry
    Many of you have been asking what happens when an angel dies 
    By: Seoung Kim
    On the street, you will begin to see the faces of the dead in those of complete strangers.
    Poetry
    Code Blue 
    By: Victoria Ojo
    In 2050—dreams and cityscapes wear the same exoskin.
    Fiction
    The Houses of the Stars in Heaven 
    By: Ferdison Cayetano
    Fakafuumaka said, “Our pathfinding instruments are mighty. As you sail the oceans, so we sail the space between stars."
    Critical Friends, Podcasts
    Critical Friends Episode 22: Romancing The Genre 
    By: Jenny Hamilton
    By: Anushree Nande
    By: Dan Hartland
    In this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Jenny Hamilton and Anushree Nande join Dan Hartland to discuss romance and romantasy.
    Reviews
    Monday: Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor 
    By: Nick Hubble
    Wednesday: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee 
    By: Kyle R. Garton
    Friday: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older 
    By: Safia H. Senhaji
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    Issue 30 Mar 2026
    Azimuth, Editorials
    Introduction: Fungal Dreams 
    By: Gautam Bhatia
    Fiction
    Nights and Weekends in the Shoggoth Loop 
    By: Yri Hansen
    Art, Poetry
    Mushroon 
    By: Mary Soon Lee
    Art by: Romie Stott
    Poetry
    The Cryptogamists 
    By: Sonya Taaffe
    Poetry
    Chronicling the Orbits of Mushrooms 
    By: Caleb Peiffer
    Articles, Non-Fiction
    From Cosmic Horror to Solarpunk Futures: The Changing Face of Fungal Speculation 
    By: Ruthanna Emrys
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    Climbing the Fungal Ladder: Towards Transcending Barriers 
    By: Ayida Shonibar
    Articles, Non-Fiction
    How to Grow a City: Biogenic Architecture and Symbiotic Evolution 
    By: Maya Horton
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    Utopian Eukaryotes: Revisiting the jahSepp from Star Trek: Discovery 
    By: Jordan Hirsch
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    Fungus, Climate Change, and You: Facts and Speculative Fiction 
    By: Jason P. Burnham
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    An STD could save your (chest)nuts 
    By: Helen Pennington
    Reviews
    Monday: Shuten Order 
    By: Tristan Beiter
    ,
    Wednesday: Make-Believe and Artifice by Rose Biggin 
    By: William Shaw
    ,
    Friday: The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu 
    By: Nileena Sunil
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    Issue 23 Mar 2026
    Poetry
    Pennsylvania Cryptid 
    By: Amelia England
    Articles, Non-Fiction
    That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF 
    By: S.L. Dove Cooper
    Poetry
    The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator 
    By: Katlina Sommerberg
    Reviews
    Monday: Beings by Ilana Masad 
    By: David Lewis
    ,
    Wednesday: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui 
    By: Alex Kingsley
    ,
    Friday: Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks 
    By: Eric Primm
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    Issue 16 Mar 2026
    Fiction
    Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems 
    By: Jenna Hanchey
    Poetry
    Narcissus Meets the Ghost of AI in a Dark Alley Behind a Fusion Restaurant 
    By: Lesley Hart Gunn
    Poetry
    [minutes between city and forest #4] 
    By: Ceridwen Hall
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity 
    By: Eugen Bacon
    Reviews
    Monday: Crisis at Proxima by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson 
    By: Andy Sawyer
    ,
    Wednesday: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix 
    By: Amritesh Mukherjee
    ,
    Friday: When Among Crows and To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth 
    By: Electra Pritchett
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    Issue 9 Mar 2026
    Poetry
    An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy 
    By: Sophia Zhao
    Podcasts
    Podcast: I Wish You Died Laughing 
    By: Lio Abendan
    Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
    Poetry
    The Menu Under Glass 
    By: Gabrielle Munslow
    Fiction
    This Obituary Has Been Retracted 
    By: P.C. Verrone
    Reviews
    Monday: ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction edited by Marissa van Uden 
    By: Octavia Cade
    ,
    Wednesday: This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs 
    By: Roseanna Pendlebury
    ,
    Friday: The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty 
    By: Anushree Nande
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    Azimuth, Azimuth Highlights
    Call for Non-Fiction Submissions: Special Issue on Fungi in SFF
    Strange Horizons
    2 Mar 2026
    Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
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    Issue 2 Mar 2026
    Azimuth, Azimuth Highlights
    Call for Non-Fiction Submissions: Special Issue on Fungi in SFF 
    Strange Horizons
    Fiction
    Bitter as the Sea 
    By: M.E. Bronstein
    Poetry
    Afterstory 
    By: Janet McAdams
    Poetry
    You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator) 
    By: Dacey Eliot
    Critical Friends, Podcasts
    Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style 
    By: Dan Hartland
    By: Paul Kincaid
    By: Dawn Macdonald
    Reviews
    Monday: The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina 
    By: Nick Hubble
    ,
    Wednesday: Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum 
    By: Jenny Hamilton
    ,
    Friday: The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu 
    By: Tina S. Zhu
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    Issue 23 Feb 2026
    Poetry
    bones and bones and bones and 
    By: IM Shulman
    Poetry
    Secondary Filters 
    By: Ursula Whitcher
    Articles
    Rewilding Human Purpose in Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built 
    By: Elizabeth Bush-Peel
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    Stories From The Radio 
    By: Kuzhali Manickavel
    Columns, Non-Fiction
    Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians 
    By: Ada Palmer
    Reviews
    Monday: The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip 
    By: Roy Salzman-Cohen
    ,
    Wednesday: New Meat in a Clean Room edited by Ira Rat 
    By: Subham Rai
    ,
    Friday: The House of Illusionists and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg 
    By: Stephen Case
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    Issue 16 Feb 2026
    Fiction
    The River Speaks My Name 
    By: Ocoxōchitl la Coyota
    Poetry
    They Leave 
    By: Garth Upshaw
    Poetry
    The Secret to Being a Dragon 
    By: Carolina Marchioro
    Reviews
    Monday: Into the Sun by C.F. Ramuz, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan 
    By: Dawn Macdonald
    ,
    Wednesday: Lies Weeping by Glen Cook 
    By: Roz Kaveney
    ,
    Friday: Slow Gods by Claire North 
    By: Ian J. Simpson
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    Issue 9 Feb 2026
    Fiction
    A Night with Hui ‘Enehana ‘Ike 
    By: Maʻemaʻeolehua Matsumoto
    Poetry
    Why You Don't Buy Your Wife a Dishwasher for Her Birthday 
    By: Larina Warnock
    Poetry
    The Point 
    By: Darius Jones
    Reviews
    Monday: Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud 
    By: Matt Holder
    ,
    Wednesday: Arctic Knot by Ivan Leonov 
    By: Tristan Beiter
    ,
    Friday: Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 by Andrea Horbinski 
    By: Rachel Cordasco
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    Issue 2 Feb 2026
    Poetry
    Plastic Paradise Awaits 
    By: Josh Pearce
    Poetry
    The Sunfish Considers Flotation Therapy 
    By: Alison Clara Tan
    Fiction
    Mother, Darling 
    By: Allison Pottern
    Azimuth, Editorials
    Statement on ICE Operations in the USA 
    By: the Strange Horizons staff
    Podcasts
    Podcast: The Aquarium for Lost Souls 
    By: Natasha King
    Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
    Reviews
    Monday: Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
    By: Andy Sawyer
    ,
    Wednesday: Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree 
    By: Anushree Nande
    ,
    Friday: Hazelthorn by C. G. Drews 
    By: Cameron Miguel
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